Abstract
Differential atmospheric refraction (DAR) limits the amount of light that can be coupled into a single mode fiber and provides additional complications for any fiber tracking system. We present an atmospheric dispersion corrector (ADC) design based off of two counter-rotating prisms to fit the needs of exoplanet spectroscopy for the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC) from 1.1 to 4.2 microns. Due to strong telluric effects, we find that the default Zemax prescription for DAR between 2 and 4.2 microns to be inaccurate up to 15 mas when comparing against DAR models computed from first principles. Using first-principle models, we developed our own custom ADC optimization solution and achieve less than 4 mas residual dispersion in any individual science band (J, K, L) down to 60 degree zenith angles, while the whole time maintaining less than 3 mas of residual dispersion in the tracking band (H) and less than 2 mas of residual dispersion between the tracking and science bands.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII |
Editors | Christopher J. Evans, Julia J. Bryant, Kentaro Motohara |
Publisher | SPIE |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781510636811 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2020 |
Event | Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII 2020 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: Dec 14 2020 → Dec 22 2020 |
Publication series
Name | Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering |
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Volume | 11447 |
ISSN (Print) | 0277-786X |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1996-756X |
Conference
Conference | Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII 2020 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Virtual, Online |
Period | 12/14/20 → 12/22/20 |
Funding
This work was supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation through grants #2019-1312 and #2015-129. J. Wang is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation 51 Pegasi b postdoctoral fellowship. Part of this work was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). W. M. Keck Observatory is operated as a scientific partnership among the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The Observatory was made possible by the generous financial support of the W. M. Keck Foundation. The authors wish to recognize and acknowledge the very significant cultural role and reverence that the summit of Maunakea has always had within the indigenous Hawaiian community. We are most fortunate to have the opportunity to conduct observations from this mountain.
Keywords
- Atmospheric dispersion corrector
- High dispersion coronagraphy
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Computer Science Applications
- Applied Mathematics
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering